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Melbourne Data Eng meetup, February Edition
Hey all, please join us for our February Edition of the Melbourne Data Eng meetup. Join us for an engaging session filled with exciting discussions and networking opportunities.
Don't miss out—RSVP to secure your spot. Please reach out if you'd like to host us! 🎉
🏠 Location: Stone & Chalk Melbourne
🍕 Catering: Easygo 😊
💬 Join our Slack Group here: [Data Engineers Slack Channel](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd09iTwpNulQH0b1BdslM1RzgImOGlX4WgOx6_rzvmVANwGmw/viewform)
**Schedule:**
\- 5\.30pm: Doors Open
\- 6\.00pm: Announcements and Welcome
\- 6\.10pm: 1st Talk
\- 6\.40pm: 2nd Talk
\- 7\.10pm: Networking
\- 7\.30pm: Doors Close
**Speakers:**
🎤 Anirban Roy Chowdhury, SD2 - Data engineering @ Easygo
**Talk Title**: Multi tenant/region data engineering
**Talk Summary**: Servicing multiple markets and challenges faced in multi-tenant architecture.
**Speaker Bio**: Anirban is a versatile data professional with cross-industry expertise. Beginning his career as a software engineer at BlackRock in Delhi, India, he pursued his passion for data by relocating to Australia to earn a Master's in Data Science from Monash University. With experience spanning retail, consultancy, and real estate technology sectors, he specialise in bridging the gap between data insights and business outcomes. His work focuses on empowering organisations to implement data-driven decision-making processes that deliver measurable results. Through his practical approach to data engineering, he helped his teams to transform raw information into strategic assets that drive business growth.
🎤 Muhammad Ali, Sr. Solutions Architect at ClickHouse
**Talk Title**: Engineering for Real-Time User-Facing Analytics
**Talk Summary**: Building a dashboard for a dozen internal analysts is a solved problem. Building an analytical feature for a million concurrent users is an engineering nightmare. The fundamental laws of data processing change when we move analytics from the "back office" to the "front end”. In this session we will discuss engineering demands for building web facing low latency realtime analytics, and how to accomplish it without breaking the bank.
**Speaker Bio**: Architecting the next generation of real-time AI workloads and observability
If you'd like to **present** at future meetups, please submit your talk [here](https://dataengbytes.com/forms/meetup-talk)!
Remember to bring along some great questions! See you all there...
GDG Melbourne February Coding Night!
RSVP Codeword: DART
Hack night is now known as Coding Night!!
Let's get together and share what we are working on!
This is a combined GDG Melbourne/Flutter Melbourne/CocoaHeads coding night. Members of all three groups will be attending. So only select to ATTEND on one of these groups event pages (not all of them) !
Coding Night is all about everyone learning, collaborating, sharing tips, tricks and very few (if any) presentations.
Bring your laptop and a project you are working on or need help with, you can even bring your resume to get advice!
Everyone is welcome to our all-ages alcohol-free event. Hosted in a professional environment to allow you to work on your project. Get help from industry experts who are on hand to help you out.
Make sure you have your IDE (e.g. Android Studio) of choice already downloaded and installed and something you want to learn or work on.
Doors open at 5:45 PM at our host the Mantel Group, Level 2/452 Flinders St Melbourne. Message via Meetup or Slack if you are arriving after 6:00 as the lifts won't let you up. The event will wrap up at 8:30.
This is an in-person only event. If you have any accessibility requirements please reach out via the Meetup or Slack to the organiser group to discuss and we will do our best to help you out.
Agenda
***
Hosted By
Katie Barnett, GDE Android / GDG Organiser
Katie is passionate about all things Android. She has taken on a wide variety of challenging projects including in the live event, media and travel space. Her favourite thing is to see someone having a delightful experience using something she has worked on. Katie is very active in the development community, she is a Google Developer Expert for Android, one of the organisers of GDG Melbourne and is a Women Techmakers Ambassador. She frequently runs events, speaks on technical and non-technical topics and enjoys writing blog posts to share her experience with others. Katie is based in Melbourne, Australia but loves to travel the world and outside of tech she enjoys boardgaming and attempting to finish many craft projects.
Suesi Tran, Senior Flutter Developer
Google Developer Expert in Dart, Flutter & Firebase, Women Techmaker Melbourne ambassador, GDG Melbourne & Flutter Melbourne co-organiser.
In short: Flutter is love, and mobile is life.
Poornima Sivakumar, GDG Organiser
Lovee Jain, GDG Organiser
Lovee is a Software Engineer at Prezzee, a GDG Melbourne Organiser and also a Women Techmakers Ambassador. A tech inquisitive philomath, she loves problem solving and solution design. She has worked at a city council where she developed a lot of useful system integrations and while at Prezzee she develops and works on multiple gift card solutions to cater the B2B2C market.
Zach Jensz, GDG Organiser
Passionate about the web, seamless UX and accessibility. I love attending meetups, find me and come say hi!
Ujjawal Raj, GDG Organiser
Bramley Turner-Jones, GDG Organiser
Yuba Raj (UV) Panta, GDG Cloud Organiser
Kartik Arora, Android Engineer
Google Developer Expert in Android
Android Engineer @ Bilue
Carolyn Ai Chi Wong,
Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-melbourne-presents-gdg-melbourne-february-coding-night-2/.
Coding Night - iOS, visionOS, macOS, tvOS or watchOS, Android - Everyone Welcome
**Details - Coding Night!**
Bring your laptop and your iOS, visionOS, macOS, tvOS or watchOS project to the combined CocoaHeads & Android GDG coding night.
Everyone is welcome to our all-ages alcohol-free event. Hosted in a professional environment to allow you to work on your project. Get help from industry experts who are on hand to help you out.
• What we'll do:
We'll help you setup up Xcode and start your first project.
We'll help answer your questions re how to get to the next phase of your project.
• What to bring:
Your laptop, a copy of Xcode, a project you'd like to hack on.
Before arrival, make sure you're grabbing a fresh copy of Xcode from the Mac App Store (Apple Menu then App Store then search for Xcode, Install. Link: https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/xcode/id497799835?mt=12)
Doors open at 5:45 PM at our host the Mantel Group, Level 2/452 Flinders St Melbourne. Message via Meetup or Slack if you are arriving after 6:00 as the lifts won't let you up. The hack night will wrap up at 8:30.
From Prompt to Product
**Product Talk** exists because in modern SaaS companies, the product isn’t “owned” purely by PMs, it’s shaped by everyone. Engineers, designers, data, growth, product marketing, sales, customer teams, founders, if your work changes what customers experience, you’re in the product business. The goal is to get the whole product mix in one room, learn how other functions are approaching the same problems, and leave with ideas and language you can actually use at work the next day.
The format is simple: two talks from operators who've been deep in the work, plus time to meet smart people in the product ecosystem. The goal is signal, what’s changing right now, what trends actually matter, and the tradeoffs teams are making to keep shipping.
**This event**
AI talk is everywhere right now. This session focuses on real-world applications, workflows, constraints, and outcomes.
So yes, Product Talk is doing an AI night too, but with Actual Intelligence, and real operators who’ve built real things.
* Two speakers, two different worlds, both with outcomes.
**[Jared Korinko](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jared-korinko-76b68851/)** ***(Product @ Google, Google Photos)*** *is shipping for 1B+ users, and will share how he built a revenue-generating side hustle purely with AI, the approach, the tools, and the parts that didn’t work as advertised.*
***[Joel Kenyon](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-kenyon/) (FMR Head of Product, Amused Group)*** *has led the design and delivery of a wagering platform powering 10 brands, and has embedded GenAI into product workflows to accelerate validation and roadmap intelligence. He’ll talk about what AI looks like when it’s part of a real product organisation, with constraints, compliance, and customers who do not care about your tooling.*
*If you’re building SaaS as a PM, designer, engineer or even founder, and you want practical signal over AI noise, this one will be worth your time.*
**When:** Wed 18th
**Doors:** 17:30
**First speaker:** 18:15
**Wrap:** \~19:30
**Where:** Ippon Technologies office, 8/607 Bourke St. Cnr Bourke and King St's.
This is an accessible venue. Enter the building via the Bourke St Entrance and use the lifts to come to Level 8.
Call Simon on 0459 59 22 01 if you require assistance or are lost.
WED NIGHT Asian Background Social: Lounge Asia Meetup (Easy English) @ Melbourne
Global Asian Social: Lounge Asia Meetup @ Melbourne
🥂 Looking for your community in Melbourne?
Welcome to Lounge Asia — The premier social exclusively for Global Asians.
⚡ WHY JOIN? (Your Benefits)
✅ Find Your Tribe: Instantly connect with people who share your Asian heritage & values.
✅ Real Conversations: No loud club music. Just a relaxed vibe for genuine chats.
✅ Safe & Chill: Your "Third Place" mid-week to relax and be yourself.
⚡ WHO IS THIS FOR?
* This event is exclusively for people with Asian backgrounds.
* Global Asians: Living, working, or studying abroad.
* Cross-Cultural: Returnees, TCKs, or Mixed Heritage.
(We curate this space to share our specific shared experiences. Thank you for respecting this.)
📍 WHEN & WHERE
🗓 Date: Every 3rd Wednesday of the month
⏰ Time: From 6:00 pm
📍 Venue: Diesel Bar & Eatery (Melbourne CBD)
🚪 Entrance: Enter via Little Lonsdale St only. (No entry from inside Melbourne Central).
💰 Entry: Buy 1 Drink from the bar OR Pay $3 at the door.
🚨 HOW TO JOIN (Mandatory)
1. You MUST RSVP on this page.
STRICT POLICY: No RSVP = No Entry. We check the list at the door.
2. Follow Instagram: @_lounge_asia
3.
🎁 VIP ACCESS (Founding Members)
Join the VIP list for early access to our official app & special party invites.
👉[GET VIP ACCESS](https://forms.gle/t6GXAjTNFECetVuZ8)
⚠️ HOUSE RULES (Zero Tolerance)
To protect our safe environment, we strictly ban:
🚫 Solicitation: No MLM, business recruitment, or poaching.
🚫 Harassment: No pickup artists or creepy behavior.
Violators are removed immediately.
🌏 OUR VISION
"Connecting Asia & The World"
🇦🇺 Australia: Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne (1,500+ Members)
🌏 2026 Expansion: Tokyo, Ho Chi Minh, Cebu.
⚠️ IMPORTANT
ID Required: Passport or Driver’s License (18+).
Student IDs: NOT accepted.
VIC Law: ID checks are required at the licensed bar.
👥 Your Host:
🎤 David – Your friendly Melbourne host!
Global Asian Social: Lounge Asia Meetup @ Melbourne
🥂 メルボルンでコミュニティをお探しですか?
Lounge Asiaへようこそ — グローバル・アジア人のための最高の交流会です。
⚡ 参加するメリット
✅ 仲間が見つかる: アジアのルーツや価値観を共有できる人とすぐにつながれます。
✅ リアルな会話: 騒がしいクラブではありません。リラックスして会話を楽しめます。
✅ 安心・安全: 平日の夜、素の自分でいられる「サードプレイス」です。
⚡ 参加対象
* 本イベントは、アジアのバックグラウンドを持つ方限定です。
* Global Asians: 海外在住、勤務、留学中の方。
* Cross-Cultural: 帰国子女、TCK、ミックスの方。
(共通の経験を共有する場を作るため、ご理解をお願いいたします。)
📍 日時・場所
🗓 日程: 毎月 第3水曜日
⏰ 時間: 6:00 pm から
📍 場所: Diesel Bar & Eatery (Melbourne CBD)
🚪 入口: Little Lonsdale St側の入り口からお入りください (Melbourne Central内からは入れません)。
💰 参加費: バーでドリンク1杯購入 または 入場料$3
🚨 参加方法 (必須)
1. このページで必ずRSVP (参加登録) をしてください。
厳格なルール: RSVPがない場合は入場できません。入り口でリストを確認します。
2. Instagramをフォロー: @_lounge_asia
3.
🎁 VIPアクセス (創設メンバー)
公式アプリの先行アクセスと特別パーティーへの招待を受け取るには、VIPリストに登録してください。
👉[GET VIP ACCESS](https://forms.gle/t6GXAjTNFECetVuZ8)
⚠️ ハウスルール (ゼロ・トレランス)
安全な環境を守るため、以下を厳禁とします。
🚫 勧誘行為: MLM、ビジネス勧誘、引き抜きは禁止です。
🚫 迷惑行為: ナンパ、不快な行動は禁止です。
違反者は即座に退場となります。
🌏 私たちのビジョン
"Connecting Asia & The World"
🇦🇺 オーストラリア: ブリスベン、シドニー、メルボルン (メンバー1,500名以上)
🌏 2026年展開: 東京、ホーチミン、セブ
⚠️ 重要
ID必須: パスポートまたは運転免許証 (18歳以上)。
学生証: 不可。
👥 ホスト:
🎤 David (メルボルン担当)
Global Asian Social: Lounge Asia Meetup @ Melbourne
🥂 正在墨爾本尋找屬於你的社群嗎?
歡迎來到 Lounge Asia — 專為全球亞裔打造的優質社交圈。
⚡ 為什麼要參加? (你的收穫)
✅ 找到歸屬感: 立即連結擁有相同亞洲背景與價值觀的朋友。
✅ 真誠對話: 這裡沒有吵雜的夜店音樂,只有輕鬆交流的氛圍。
✅ 安全放鬆: 週間放鬆身心的「第三空間」,讓你做回真實的自己。
⚡ 適合誰參加?
* 本活動專為擁有亞洲背景的人士舉辦。
* Global Asians: 在海外生活、工作或求學的亞裔。
* Cross-Cultural: 海歸派、TCK 或擁有混合文化背景者。
(為了分享共同的經歷,我們特別規劃此專屬空間,感謝您的理解。)
📍 時間與地點
🗓 日期: 每月的第三個星期三
⏰ 時間: 6:00 pm 開始
📍 地點: Diesel Bar & Eatery (Melbourne CBD)
🚪 入口: 請務必從 Little Lonsdale St 入口進入 (無法從 Melbourne Central 內部進入)。
💰 費用: 購買一杯飲料 或 支付 $3 入場費
🚨 如何參加 (必須遵守)
1. 你必須在此頁面報名 (RSVP)。
嚴格執行: 無報名 = 無法入場。我們將在門口核對名單。
2. 追蹤 Instagram: @_lounge_asia
🎁 VIP 會員 (創始成員)
加入 VIP 名單,搶先體驗我們的官方 App 及獲得特別派對邀請。
👉[GET VIP ACCESS](https://forms.gle/t6GXAjTNFECetVuZ8)
⚠️ 規範 (零容忍政策)
為了維護安全的環境,我們嚴禁:
🚫 推銷招攬: 禁止直銷 (MLM)、商業招攬或挖角。
🚫 騷擾行為: 禁止搭訕騷擾或任何令人不適的行為。
違規者將被立即請離。
🌏 我們的願景
"Connecting Asia & The World"
🇦🇺 澳洲: 布里斯本、雪梨、墨爾本 (成員超過1,500人)
🌏 2026年擴展: 東京、胡志明市、宿霧。
⚠️ 重要事項
必須出示 ID: 護照或駕照 (須滿18歲)。
學生證: 不接受。
👥 主辦人:
🎤 David (墨爾本負責人)
Global Asian Social: Lounge Asia Meetup @ Melbourne
🥂 멜버른에서 커뮤니티를 찾고 있나요?
Lounge Asia에 오신 것을 환영합니다 — 글로벌 아시안을 위한 프리미엄 소셜 모임입니다.
⚡ 참여해야 하는 이유 (혜택)
✅ 공감대 형성: 아시아의 문화적 배경과 가치관을 공유하는 사람들과 즉시 연결됩니다.
✅ 진솔한 대화: 시끄러운 클럽 음악이 아닙니다. 편안한 분위기에서 진짜 대화를 나누세요.
✅ 안전과 휴식: 주중의 피로를 풀고 온전한 나로 돌아갈 수 있는 '제3의 공간'입니다.
⚡ 참여 대상
* 본 이벤트는 아시아 배경을 가진 분들만을 대상으로 합니다.
* Global Asians: 해외 거주, 근무, 유학 중인 아시아인.
* Cross-Cultural: 귀국 유학생, TCK, 또는 다문화 배경을 가진 분.
(공통의 경험을 나누기 위한 자리이므로, 이 점 양해 부탁드립니다.)
📍 일시 및 장소
🗓 날짜: 매월 셋째 주 수요일
⏰ 시간: 6:00 pm 부터
📍 장소: Diesel Bar & Eatery (Melbourne CBD)
🚪 입구: 반드시 Little Lonsdale St 쪽 입구로 입장해주세요 (Melbourne Central 내부 연결 불가).
💰 비용: 바에서 음료 1잔 구매 또는 입장료 $3
🚨 참여 방법 (필수)
1. 이 페이지에서 반드시 RSVP(참가 신청)를 해야 합니다.
엄격한 규칙: RSVP 없음 = 입장 불가. 입구에서 명단을 확인합니다.
2. Instagram 팔로우: @_lounge_asia
🎁 VIP 멤버 (창립 멤버)
VIP 리스트에 등록하고 공식 앱 조기 사용 권한과 특별 파티 초대장을 받으세요.
👉[GET VIP ACCESS](https://forms.gle/t6GXAjTNFECetVuZ8)
⚠️ 운영 규칙 (무관용 원칙)
안전한 환경을 위해 다음을 엄격히 금지합니다:
🚫 영업 금지: 다단계(MLM), 비즈니스 권유, 스카우트 행위 금지.
🚫 괴롭힘 금지: 헌팅 목적이나 불쾌한 행동 금지.
위반 시 즉시 퇴장 조치됩니다.
🌏 우리의 비전
"Connecting Asia & The World"
🇦🇺 호주: 브리즈번, 시드니, 멜버른 (멤버 1,500명 돌파)
🌏 2026년 확장: 도쿄, 호치민, 세부.
⚠️ 중요 사항
신분증 필수: 여권 또는 운전면허증 (18세 이상).
학생증: 불가.
👥 호스트:
🎤 David
Global Asian Social: Lounge Asia Meetup @ Melbourne
🥂 正在墨尔本寻找属于你的社群吗?
欢迎来到 Lounge Asia — 专为全球亚裔打造的优质社交圈。
⚡ 为什么要参加? (你的收获)
✅ 找到归属感: 立即连接拥有相同亚洲背景与价值观的朋友。
✅ 真诚对话: 这里没有嘈杂的夜店音乐,只有轻松交流的氛围。
✅ 安全放松: 周间放松身心的“第三空间”,让你做回真实的自己。
⚡ 适合谁参加?
本活动专为拥有亚洲背景的人士举办。
Global Asians: 在海外生活、工作或求学的亚裔。
Cross-Cultural: 海归派、TCK 或拥有混合文化背景者。
(为了分享共同的经历,我们特别规划此专属空间,感谢您的理解。)
📍 时间与地点
🗓 日期: 每月的第三个星期三
⏰ 时间: 6:00 pm 开始
📍 地点: Diesel Bar & Eatery (Melbourne CBD)
🚪 入口: 请务必从 Little Lonsdale St 入口进入 (无法从 Melbourne Central 内部进入)。
💰 费用: 购买一杯饮料 或 支付 $3 入场费
🚨 如何参加 (必须遵守)
1. 你必须在此页面报名 (RSVP)。
严格执行: 无报名 = 无法入场。我们将在门口核对名单。
2. 关注 Instagram: @_lounge_asia
🎁 VIP 会员 (创始成员)
加入 VIP 名单,抢先体验我们的官方 App 及获得特别派对邀请。
👉[GET VIP ACCESS](https://forms.gle/t6GXAjTNFECetVuZ8)
⚠️ 规范 (零容忍政策)
为了维护安全的环境,我们严禁:
🚫 推销招揽: 禁止传销 (MLM)、商业招揽或挖角。
🚫 骚扰行为: 禁止搭讪骚扰或任何令人不适的行为。
违规者将被立即请离。
🌏 我们的愿景
"Connecting Asia & The World"
🇦🇺 澳洲: 布里斯班、悉尼、墨尔本 (成员超过1,500人)
🌏 2026年扩展: 东京、胡志明市、宿务。
⚠️ 重要事项
必须出示 ID: 护照或驾照 (须满18岁)。
学生证: 不接受。
👥 主办人:
🎤 David
Global Asian Social: Lounge Asia Meetup @ Melbourne
🥂 Bạn đang tìm kiếm cộng đồng tại Melbourne?
Chào mừng đến với Lounge Asia — Cộng đồng hàng đầu dành riêng cho Global Asians.
⚡ TẠI SAO NÊN THAM GIA? (Lợi ích của bạn)
✅ Tìm thấy sự thuộc về: Kết nối ngay lập tức với những người chia sẻ di sản và giá trị Á Đông.
✅ Trò chuyện chân thực: Không ồn ào như vũ trường. Một không gian thư giãn để trò chuyện thật sự.
✅ An toàn & Thoải mái: "Không gian thứ ba" giữa tuần để thư giãn và là chính mình.
⚡ DÀNH CHO AI?
Sự kiện này chỉ dành riêng cho những người có nguồn gốc Châu Á.
Global Asians: Đang sống, làm việc hoặc học tập ở nước ngoài.
Đa văn hóa: Du học sinh về nước, TCK, hoặc người có dòng máu lai.
(Chúng tôi tạo ra không gian này để chia sẻ những trải nghiệm chung cụ thể. Cảm ơn bạn đã tôn trọng điều này.)
📍 THỜI GIAN & ĐỊA ĐIỂM
🗓 Ngày: Thứ Tư tuần thứ 3 hàng tháng
⏰ Thời gian: Từ 6:00 pm
📍 Địa điểm: Diesel Bar & Eatery (Melbourne CBD)
🚪 Lối vào: Vui lòng chỉ vào từ đường Little Lonsdale St (Không có lối vào từ bên trong Melbourne Central).
💰 Vào cửa: Mua 1 đồ uống tại quầy HOẶC Trả $3 tại cửa.
🚨 CÁCH THAM GIA (Bắt buộc)
1. Bạn PHẢI đăng ký (RSVP) trên trang này.
CHÍNH SÁCH NGHIÊM NGẶT: Không RSVP = Không vào cửa. Chúng tôi kiểm tra danh sách tại cửa.
2. Theo dõi Instagram: @_lounge_asia
🎁 THÀNH VIÊN VIP (Sáng lập)
Tham gia danh sách VIP để truy cập sớm ứng dụng chính thức & nhận vé mời tiệc đặc biệt.
👉[GET VIP ACCESS](https://forms.gle/t6GXAjTNFECetVuZ8)
⚠️ NỘI QUY (Không khoan nhượng)
Để bảo vệ môi trường an toàn, chúng tôi nghiêm cấm:
🚫 Chèo kéo: Cấm đa cấp (MLM), tuyển dụng kinh doanh, hoặc lôi kéo.
🚫 Quấy rối: Cấm tán tỉnh làm phiền hoặc hành vi khiếm nhã.
Người vi phạm sẽ bị mời ra ngay lập tức.
🌏 TẦM NHÌN CỦA CHÚNG TÔI
"Connecting Asia & The World"
🇦🇺 Úc: Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne (Hơn 1,500 thành viên)
🌏 Mở rộng 2026: Tokyo, TP.HCM, Cebu.
⚠️ QUAN TRỌNG
Yêu cầu giấy tờ: Hộ chiếu hoặc Bằng lái xe (18+).
Thẻ sinh viên: KHÔNG được chấp nhận.
👥 Chủ nhà của bạn:
🎤 David
Global Asian Social: Lounge Asia Meetup @ Melbourne
🥂 Naghahanap ka ba ng iyong komunidad sa Melbourne?
Welcome sa Lounge Asia — Ang premier social na eksklusibo para sa Global Asians.
⚡ BAKIT DAPAT SUMALI? (Ang iyong Benepisyo)
✅ Find Your Tribe: Agad na kumonekta sa mga taong kapareho mo ng Asian heritage at values.
✅ Real Conversations: Hindi maingay na club. Relaxed na vibe para sa totoong kwentuhan.
✅ Safe & Chill: Ang iyong "Third Place" sa kalagitnaan ng linggo para mag-relax.
⚡ PARA KANINO ITO?
Ang event na ito ay eksklusibo para sa mga taong may Asian background.
Global Asians: Nakatira, nagtatrabaho, o nag-aaral sa ibang bansa.
Cross-Cultural: Returnees, TCKs, o Mixed Heritage.
(Ginawa namin ang space na ito para maibahagi ang aming shared experiences. Salamat sa pagrespeto nito.)
📍 KAILAN AT SAAN
🗓 Petsa: Tuwing ika-3 Miyerkules ng buwan
⏰ Oras: Mula 6:00 pm
📍 Venue: Diesel Bar & Eatery (Melbourne CBD)
🚪 Entrance: Pumasok sa Little Lonsdale St lamang (Walang entry mula sa loob ng Melbourne Central).
💰 Entry: Bumili ng 1 Drink sa bar O Magbayad ng $3 sa pinto.
🚨 PAANO SUMALI (Mandatory)
1. KAILANGAN mong mag-RSVP sa page na ito.
MAHIGPIT NA PATAKARAN: Walang RSVP = Hindi Makakapasok. Tinitingnan namin ang listahan sa pinto.
2. I-follow ang Instagram: @_lounge_asia
🎁 VIP ACCESS (Founding Members)
Sumali sa VIP list para sa early access sa aming official app & special party invites.
👉[GET VIP ACCESS](https://forms.gle/t6GXAjTNFECetVuZ8)
⚠️ HOUSE RULES (Zero Tolerance)
Para maprotektahan ang aming safe environment, mahigpit naming ipinagbabawal:
🚫 Solicitation: Bawal ang MLM, business recruitment, o poaching.
🚫 Harassment: Bawal ang pambabastos o creepy behavior.
Ang mga lalabag ay tatanggalin agad.
🌏 ANG AMING BISYON
"Connecting Asia & The World"
🇦🇺 Australia: Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne (1,500+ Members)
🌏 2026 Expansion: Tokyo, Ho Chi Minh, Cebu.
⚠️ MAHALAGA
ID Required: Passport o Driver’s License (18+).
Student IDs: HINDI tinatanggap.
👥 Ang iyong Host:
🎤 David
Global Asian Social: Lounge Asia Meetup @ Melbourne
🥂 Mencari komuniti anda di Melbourne?
Selamat Datang ke Lounge Asia — Sosial premier eksklusif untuk Global Asians.
⚡ KENAPA SERTAI? (Manfaat Anda)
✅ Cari Geng Anda: Berhubung segera dengan orang yang berkongsi warisan & nilai Asia anda.
✅ Perbualan Sebenar: Bukan muzik kelab yang bising. Suasana santai untuk borak sebenar.
✅ Selamat & Santai: "Tempat Ketiga" anda pada pertengahan minggu untuk berehat.
⚡ UNTUK SIAPA?
Acara ini adalah eksklusif untuk mereka yang berlatarbelakangkan Asia.
Global Asians: Tinggal, bekerja, atau belajar di luar negara.
Silang Budaya: Mereka yang kembali, TCK, atau Warisan Campuran.
(Kami menyediakan ruang ini untuk berkongsi pengalaman bersama. Terima kasih kerana menghormatinya.)
📍 BILA & DI MANA
🗓 Tarikh: Setiap Rabu ke-3 setiap bulan
⏰ Masa: Dari 6:00 pm
📍 Lokasi: Diesel Bar & Eatery (Melbourne CBD)
🚪 Pintu Masuk: Sila masuk melalui Little Lonsdale St sahaja (Tiada laluan masuk dari dalam Melbourne Central).
💰 Masuk: Beli 1 Minuman dari bar ATAU Bayar $3 di pintu.
🚨 CARA MENYERTAI (Wajib)
1. Anda MESTI RSVP di halaman ini.
POLISI KETAT: Tiada RSVP = Tiada Masuk. Kami semak senarai di pintu.
2. Ikuti Instagram: @_lounge_asia
🎁 AKSES VIP (Ahli Pengasas)
Sertai senarai VIP untuk akses awal ke aplikasi rasmi kami & jemputan parti khas.
👉[GET VIP ACCESS](https://forms.gle/t6GXAjTNFECetVuZ8)
⚠️ PERATURAN RUMAH (Toleransi Sifar)
Untuk melindungi persekitaran selamat kami, kami melarang keras:
🚫 Solicitation: Tiada MLM, perekrutan perniagaan, atau curi tenaga kerja.
🚫 Gangguan: Tiada gangguan seksual atau kelakuan yang tidak menyenangkan.
Pelanggar akan dikeluarkan serta-merta.
🌏 VISI KAMI
"Connecting Asia & The World"
🇦🇺 Australia: Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne (1,500+ Ahli)
🌏 Pengembangan 2026: Tokyo, Ho Chi Minh, Cebu.
⚠️ PENTING
ID Diperlukan: Pasport atau Lesen Memandu (18+).
ID Pelajar: TIDAK diterima.
👥 Hos Anda:
🎤 David
Hong Kong Mahjong at Marché Board Game Cafe
Players of all skill levels are welcome to join us at Marché Board Games Cafe in the CBD for a casual night of mahjong - Right in the CBD. We'll start around 6:00pm till we all need to go home :)
Our typical session concludes usually around 10:00pm.
Please change your RSVP to not going if you're no longer able to attend, 24 hours prior the event.
For those that have a record of non attendance without communicating, you will be moved to the waiting list for future events and be contacted directly to confirm that you indeed intend to turn up, at which you will be allotted a spot subject to availability.
For more details on the rules of the game, please refer to: http://mahjongtime.com/hong-kong-mahjong-rules.html
Marche has been kind enough to offer us a deal to play in their cafe.
**⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆ Cost ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆**
Attendees who have registered for the event on Meetup can play at discounted rates, with the following payments to be made:
* **$6 in total per session” to cover cafe costs. Payment of $6 should be made to Marche at the front counter upon notification to the staff member that you are here for the scheduled meetup.
There is now no minimum spend on items at the cafe as there were before.
The cafes menu can be found here https://mbgcafe.com.au/menu.pdf .
Social – Welcome to new members & catch up for regulars - City
Never been to one of our meet-ups before? Been a member for a while or just joined? Either way this is the social for you!
Once a month we hold a special meet-up to welcome in new members. Regulars are encouraged to attend and help new members have a fun night out!
Our monthly “newbie” social is an opportunity to learn about our groups, events held and resources to help members.
More importantly it is an opportunity to meet others going through separation & divorce in a safe and friendly environment. We can all learn from each other, but the primary aim of the socials is to enjoy ourselves!
Our socials are hosted by members of the Divorce Support & Social Group and the Melbourne Divorce Support Group.
We pay for own food and drinks individually.
On Wednesday nights the Royal Melbourne has $20 pizza and pasta specials. Great food and great company.
We hope to see you!
database-development Events This Week
Discover what is happening in the next few days
Nirvana Shatakam – Shankara's Six Verses on Freedom
**Nirvana Shatakam – Shankara's Six Verses on Freedom**
Most spiritual paths tell you to become something. This teaching does the opposite.
Through six ancient verses by Adi Shankara, you discover who you are by removing what you're NOT – the body, mind, and roles you play. What remains is your limitless nature that was always here.
Over seven months, we'll unpack these verses line by line, transforming how you see yourself and your life.
**What You'll Learn**
* How you mistake yourself for body, mind, emotions, and roles
* Why self-knowledge differs from self-improvement
* Why you've never actually been bound – and what keeps that recognition hidden
* What it means to recognise yourself as the sought, not the seeker
**About the Teacher**
Andre Vas teaches Vedanta full-time under the Swami Dayananda (Arsha Vidya) lineage. As a former business owner, he relates deeply to householders juggling work, family, and inner growth. Known for making knowledge stick through lived experience, not just concepts.
**Who This Is For**
No prior background needed. For anyone noticing that acquiring more, achieving more, or becoming better doesn't stick. For those with burning curiosity and a hunger to know, understand, and live this wisdom. **I'll set up group discussions also to help us make new friends.**
**When & Where**
📅 Feb 21, 2026 – Every Saturday, 2:00-4:00pm Melbourne time
📍 3 Anjaya Court, Blackburn, Melbourne
**More info: [YesVedanta.com/nirvana](https://YesVedanta.com/nirvana)**
Event Streaming with GCP DataFlow
Starting the year with exciting topic:
* **Topic:** Event Streaming with GCP DataFlow
* **Date:** Thursday 19th February 2026 at 6.00 pm - 8.00 pm
* **Networking:** 6 pm - 6.30 pm and 7.20 - 8 pm
* **Presentation Time**: 6.30 pm - 7.20 pm
*(includes welcome, presentation 30 mins & community marketplace)*
* **Location:** Fabric Group, Level 9, 446 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
* **Ticket:** Free of cost, however, registrations and RSVP are required!
* **Sponsor:** Fabric Group, Thoughtworks
**Event Streaming with GCP DataFlow**
Learn about real time event streaming using GCP stack! This scalable event consolidation service orchestrates the real-time processing of millions of distributed data points into unified events. Built on GCP Dataflow and Pub/Sub, the architecture ensures high-throughput stream processing and seamless data synthesis for complex, distributed environments.
###
**About The Speaker**
*Abhishek is a Lead Software Engineer at Fabric Group with over 10 years of industry experience. He has worked extensively on data engineering problems, building ETL solutions and scalable event-driven systems. His interests include infrastructure automation and designing cloud-native solutions on AWS and Google Cloud.*
4 levels of Bachata classes + party EVERY THURSDAY IN ST KILDA
Your new Thursday Bachata spot! FREE first-timers class 6:15pm followed by 3 more classes then 100% Bachata social!
**🔥 UPDATE – BRING A FRIEND & SAVE 🔥**
Bring a friend to classes and **you BOTH get $5 off**
*(Leaders bring a follower & vice versa for best results 😉)*
## BACHATA VIBES THURSDAYS
**Weekly Bachata Social + 4 Classes**
📍 **79–81 Fitzroy St, St Kilda**
**Your Thursdays just got dangerous.**
**Bachata Vibes Thursdays** is your new weekly escape — a place where music drips, bodies move, and connections spark.
**A brand-new weekly Bachata experience combining quality classes, social dancing, and an incredible atmosphere in a beautiful, modern venue unlike anything else in the dance scene.**
Whether you're a complete beginner or a seasoned dancer, our doors are open to everyone looking to further their learning, have a good time & make friends.
New to Bachata? Addicted already? Either way, come for the classes… **stay for the vibes.**
We will start each Thursday with a FREE first timers class followed by our lineup of three dynamic Bachata classes tailored to different skill levels, allowing you to progress at your own pace and expand your dance repertoire.
**CLASS SCHEDULE**
**6:15pm – FREE Intro to Bachata**
A complimentary class for first-timers and beginners. Learn the basics and ease into the night with confidence.
**7:00pm – Improvers (Level 1)**
Ideal for beginners. We recommend 3–4 weeks before progressing to Level 2.
**8:00pm – Social moves & Combos (Level 2)**
Our largest class and open to most dancers. Perfect for those with **2 months to 2 years** of experience, covering essential moves and popular combinations.
**8:00pm – Intermediate (Level 3)**
Designed for dancers with around 3 months of Level 2 experience and regular social dancing.
### 🎶 9:00pm – 12:00am 100% BACHATA SOCIAL
As the lights dim, the party begins.
**Ducey Love & guests** playing their favourite Bachata tracks. To differentiate this night from our other events, along with playing all the current favourites of the last few years, we will also be more open to playing a bit more Dominican, English remixes (only the good ones, we swear) and maybe even a few Salsa & Zouk requests.
Last 30 mins of the night we slow it down and play all slow sensual Bachata.
### DOOR PRICES
• **1 class + social:** $25
• **2 classes + social:** $35
• **Social only:** $20
Look out for early bird discounts online and either get in touch with us or have a chat to us at the front desk about uni student discounts and loyalty card discounts!
Help us make Thursdays your favourite night of the week at
**BACHATA VIBES THURSDAYS!** 💃✨
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/1980846244440?aff=oddtdtcreator
### ⚠️ COMMUNITY SAFETY NOTICE
Our events are built on **respect, consent, and care for our community** — especially the safety and comfort of women on and off the dancefloor.
If you are on the **Obsesión banned list**, this ban **automatically applies to all related events**, including **Latin Obsession, Bachata Obsesión,** **Bachata Vibes, Latin Vibes, Albion Fridays, and all collaborative events**.
This policy exists to ensure a **safe, welcoming environment** where dancers can learn, connect, and enjoy themselves without pressure, discomfort, or fear.
Harassment, boundary violations, predatory behaviour, or repeated disregard for consent will **not be tolerated**.
We believe great dance scenes are built on **trust, accountability, and mutual respect**.
By attending our events, you agree to uphold these values and contribute to a space where everyone — particularly women and marginalised dancers — can feel safe, supported, and empowered.
Thank you for helping us protect and strengthen our community. 💜
No 85 - Bronze to Gold: A Practical Testing Strategy for Microsoft Fabric
Join link:
[https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/41790991030013?p=F3QrbogyC5Iyss1AtF](https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/41790991030013?p=F3QrbogyC5Iyss1AtF "Meeting join")
**Details**
Join us for networking, drinks and a good time catching up with fellow Power BI and Microsoft Fabric enthusiasts
**Agenda:**
5:30PM - 6:00PM Welcome and Networking
6:00PM - 7:00PM Speaker Session
**Topic:** From Bronze to Gold: A Practical Testing Strategy for Microsoft Fabric
**THE SPEAKER -** Mikhail Koptelov
**THE SESSION**
Testing in Microsoft Fabric requires different strategies depending on where your logic lives. In this talk, we explore how to apply unit and contract testing across the Fabric stack:
* Pipeline unit tests for reliable orchestration and data movement
* Python notebook testing using both notebook-first and package-first approaches
* SQL contract testing to ensure downstream dependencies remain stable
By the end, you’ll have a practical blueprint for building robust, testable Fabric workloads from Bronze to Gold.
**Pre-requisites**: Basic understanding of Fabric and python
**Sponsors:**
**Vivanti**
A big thank you goes out to our sponsor, Vivanti, for their support of this Meetup; providing the venue as well as drinks for attendees.
**Sirius Technology (https://www.siriuspeople.com.au/)**
A big thank also to our co-sponsor, Sirius Technology, for their ongoing support of our Meetup and providing us with food for each event.
Sirius Technology recruits across all Technology Disciplines from Development (Front and back-end), Testing, Network, and Security, Project Services (PM's, BA's, Project Coordinators) & Data - across all technology stacks.
**The Power BI Developer Checklist**
You can download Greg's Power BI developer checklist here: [Power BI Report Development Checklist](https://www.dearwatson.net.au/checklist)
Feb Meetup - What's new in Azure and Simplifying Build Agents for Azure DevOps
**AJ Bajada & Danidu Weerasinghe - What's new in Azure and GitHub**
A fast, practical tour of the newest innovations across Azure and GitHub. We’ll break down the latest cloud capabilities, AI‑powered developer tools, security enhancements, and DevOps integrations that are transforming how teams build and ship software.
**Dylan McCarthy - Managed DevOps Pools - Simplifying Build Agents for Azure DevOps**
Managing build agents for Azure DevOps has always been a bit of a pain, requiring teams to create VMs or VM Scale Sets, maintain their images, manage spinning up and down resources to manage cost and build times.
In this talk I want to show you how you can abstract away a lot of that pain by using Managed DevOps Pools. I will walk you through what the service is, it's features and then show you how to connect a pool to an Azure DevOps environment.
Melbourne Workshop: Building Resilient Event-Driven Systems with Kafka and Flink
Please register for this event [here](https://factorhouse.io/events/melbourne-workshop-building-resilient-event-driven-systems-with-kafka-and-flink).
**Go beyond theory and build a production-ready event stream**
Join us for a practitioner-led, hands-on workshop where you'll design, build, and operate a complete real-time operational system from the ground up.
We're teaming up with NetApp Instaclustr and Ververica to run this intensive half-day workshop.
**What You'll Build**
A resilient, real-time operational backbone powered by a Quarkus API, Kafka Streams, Apache Kafka®, and Apache Flink®. You'll implement a stateful order processing and inventory management system that processes live events in real time, the kind of critical infrastructure that powers payment processing, fleet coordination, inventory systems, and customer-facing applications across industries.
**Two Architectural Patterns, One Mission**
You'll implement and contrast two powerful approaches to building event-driven systems:
**\- Pattern 1: Direct Event Publishing**
Build a pipeline where the API writes events directly to Kafka, with a Flink job managing downstream state. Experience the challenges of application-level dual writes in real time.
**\- Pattern 2: Change Data Capture \(CDC\)**
Refactor for resilience by capturing database changes with CDC. Your API simplifies to database-only writes while Flink handles event publishing, demonstrating how CDC decouples applications from event pipelines and creates more robust data flows.
**Operate With Confidence**
Integrate **Kpow** and **Flex** to gain deep visibility into your Kafka and Flink data flows. You'll learn how to make your streaming systems more observable, accessible, and operationally efficient, skills that translate directly to production environments.
**Who Should Attend**
Software and data engineers, platform/SRE teams, and architects adopting streaming and event-driven architectures. Whether you're building payment systems, logistics platforms, or real-time analytics, this workshop gives you practical experience choosing the right patterns for your workloads.
**Please note:** Spots are limited and attendees in engineering roles will be prioritised to ensure an optimal hands-on learning environment.
Azure Meetup: What's new in Azure and Simplifying Build Agents for Azure DevOps
RSVP at: https://www.meetup.com/melbourne-azure-nights/events/312980449/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=share-btn_savedevents_share_modal&utm_source=link&utm_version=v2&member_id=71480602
**AJ Bajada & Danidu Weerasinghe - What's new in Azure and GitHub**
A fast, practical tour of the newest innovations across Azure and GitHub. We’ll break down the latest cloud capabilities, AI‑powered developer tools, security enhancements, and DevOps integrations that are transforming how teams build and ship software.
**Dylan McCarthy - Managed DevOps Pools - Simplifying Build Agents for Azure DevOps**
Managing build agents for Azure DevOps has always been a bit of a pain, requiring teams to create VMs or VM Scale Sets, maintain their images, manage spinning up and down resources to manage cost and build times.
In this talk I want to show you how you can abstract away a lot of that pain by using Managed DevOps Pools. I will walk you through what the service is, it's features and then show you how to connect a pool to an Azure DevOps environment.
database-development Events Near You
Connect with your local database-development community
Meet Up for Social Table Tennis
Meet up for casual table tennis at PingPod - Downtown Brooklyn. Register with this link: [https://app.pingpod.com/community/events/f20d56bf-f308-446f-a2f7-8886579c942c](https://app.pingpod.com/community/events/f20d56bf-f308-446f-a2f7-8886579c942c)
Bats and balls provided but you can also bring your own bat.
Open Source Data Happy Hour
Finish your day with a pizza, drinks and practical discussions on **Apache Kafka and Apache Iceberg.** This session is designed for data engineers, architects, and technical decision-makers who want to solve real-world data infrastructure challenges. Expect no high-level pitches—just straight, practical discussions on building scalable, efficient, open-source-powered data platforms.
Speakers:
* [Maja Schermuly](https://www.linkedin.com/in/majaschermuly/), Solution Architect at [Aiven](https://aiven.io/) – Diskless Kafka 101 & Object Storage Integration (KIP-1150)
* [Yingjun Wu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yingjun-wu/), Founder and CEO at [RisingWave Labs](https://www.risingwave.com/) \- A Local Lakehouse on Your Laptop with RisingWave
*
**Agenda:**
* **05:30 to 06:00 PM** – Doors Open & Networking
* **06:00 to 06:30 PM** – **Session 1:** Diskless Kafka 101 & Object Storage Integration (KIP-1150)
* **06:30 to 07:00 PM** – **Session 2:** A Local Lakehouse on Your Laptop with RisingWave
* **07:00 to 07:30 PM** – Open Q&A and Technical Breakouts
* **07:30 to 08:30 PM** – More Networking
More Data Centers, Fewer Problems
As Datadog continues to grow, their team needed to prioritize data center expansion. Unfortunately, their Postgres architecture—previously supporting a handful of data centers—became a painful liability for operators and service owners. Hidden coupling, operational toil, and reliance on components like PgBouncer surfaced major coordination challenges for data center expansion.
To understand what needed to change, the team used AI-assisted analysis to examine how Postgres was actually being used across hundreds of services. By analyzing real production workloads, queries, and traffic patterns, they identified hidden dependencies and unsafe assumptions that were impossible for individual teams to investigate alone, allowing them to deliver architectural and service-level changes with confidence.
In this talk, the speaker will share how their team simplified a production Postgres architecture to enable safe, repeatable, and hands-off data center expansion. They will walk through the original design, the failure modes that forced change, and the deliberate tradeoffs they made. The presentation will demonstrate how they used Temporal to automate previously manual workflows, removed redundant dependencies, and ultimately deprecated PgBouncer in favor of a homegrown Postgres proxy.
This practical, experience-driven talk about simplifying Postgres at scale will show how Datadog used automation to tame complexity, AI to detangle existing workloads, and built database architectures that can grow without becoming an operator's nightmare.
**Speaker: Fabiana Scala**
I am a Staff Engineer at Datadog, I like to focus on providing platform solutions for the product teams to focus on developing their business logic. I am also very active in mentoring other women engineers at Datadog and love to share my knowledge with my peers. Outside of work you can find me playing board games, tennis or traveling.
AI Lab (NYC): Building Agentic AI workflows with Teradata and AWS
**Important:** register on the [event website](https://www.aicamp.ai/event/eventdetails/W2026022609) is **REQUIRED** for admission (RSVP on meetup is turn off)
**Description:**
Join Teradata and AWS for an immersive, hands on workshop learning how to build and deploy agentic AI workflows for an end-to-end customer feedback solution powered by agentic AI and MCP.
Financial Services organizations face a significant challenge in enhancing customer experience. Financial products are highly complex and subject to intense regulation, making the resolution process manual and resource-intensive, with human support agents working around the clock. Agentic AI has the potential to exponentially scale human efforts, reducing time and resource expenditure.
Through this interactive, instructors-led workshop, we'll be working together to build and deploy intelligent agents that improve customer complaint resolution by leveraging Teradata’s Enterprise MCP Server and Vector Store with AWS Bedrock AgentCore.
**What you will learn:**
* • Key Agentic AI components of Teradata: Enterprise MCP Server and Vector Store
* • AWS Bedrock AgentCore to build Agentic workflows
* • The upcoming AI products and frameworks
* • Build an effective Agentic workflow from start to finish in the hands-on labs
**Who Should Attend:**
This hands-on workshop is designed for Developer, Data Scientist, System Architect, IT Manager, and Technical Decision Maker.
**Agenda:**
* 12:00pm\~1:00pm: Welcome Reception (Lunch Provided)
* 1:00pm\~1:30pm: TD Intro & Workshop Kickoff
* 1:30pm\~2:00pm: Tech talk: AWS Partnership, Better Together & Technology
* 2:00pm\~2:15pm: break
* 2:15pm\~3:45pm: Hands-on code labs
* 3:45pm\~4:00pm: Close - Workshop Summary and Call to Action
* 4:00pm\~5:30pm: Happy Hour and networking
Apache Cassandra Metro User Group
To attend enroll here:
[https://luma.com/q6kuetpe](https://luma.com/q6kuetpe)
Agenda
5 - 5:45: Pizza / Beer
5:45 - 6:15: NetApp, what we do, our role in open source - Mariah McLaughlin, NetApp
6:15 - 7:00: Unleashing AI in Cassandra 5 - Ritam Das, NetApp
7:00 - 8:00: When “Eventually” Meant 11 ms:
Designing Deterministic Cassandra Architectures in the Telecom Core - Thomas Elliott, Your Augmented Life Advisory Services
8:00 - 9:00: Networking
Agents in Production: workflows, memory & models
**\*\*Please note:** **to attend this event, you must be registered and approved here:** [https://luma.com/pt8n7cwe](https://luma.com/pt8n7cwe).
Anyone who is not registered and approved will not be admitted to the venue. Thank you.
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We’ve all done a lot of talking in the last few months (years??) about coding agents, advancements in models, and AI slop. In this meetup, we're bringing all of this together as our speakers talk about how to squeeze even more out of AI so you can actually ship something you're proud of.
Be our guest, hear from the speakers we've assembled, and bring your hard questions. We're here to learn from each other, successes and failures alike.
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**Talks**
[Tobie Morgan Hitchcock](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiemorganhitchcock/) (CEO, SurrealDB)
Building agent memory with knowledge graphs
[Richard Feldman](https://x.com/rtfeldman) (Zed, AI team)
Exploring live AI workflows + Q&A
[Shashank Goyal](https://x.com/shashankgoyal95) (OpenRouter, Founding Engineer)
Models, benchmarks, and how everything really stacks up
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**Agenda**
* 18:00 - Doors + drinks + food
* 18:30 - Welcome
* 18:35 - **Lightning talks (15 minutes each)**
* 20:20 - Drinks + networking
* 21:00 - Close
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**About the speakers**
[Tobie Morgan Hitchcock](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiemorganhitchcock/) (CEO, SurrealDB)
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock is CEO & Co-Founder of SurrealDB, an AI-native, multi-model database for modern applications. A tech entrepreneur and software engineer with 17 years in software and cloud computing, he specialises in distributed databases and highly available systems.
[Richard Feldman](https://x.com/rtfeldman) (Zed, AI team)
Richard created the Roc programming language, wrote the book Elm in Action, and hosts the Software Unscripted podcast. And now he's building Zed's AI features and shipping (seemingly) faster than the speed of light.
[Shashank Goyal](https://x.com/shashankgoyal95) (OpenRouter, Founding Engineer)
Shashank is a seasoned software engineer and founder, currently working on making AI inference easier for millions of devs at OpenRouter.
New York dbt Meetup | 2026 New Year, New Topics!
😎It's here! Our next dbt meetup is coming up and will be hosted at the **Datadog** office:
* New York Times Bldg, 620 8th Ave - 45th floor
* New York, NY 10018
We are looking forward to socializing and seeing all of the new and familiar faces!
💡dbt Meetups are networking events open to all folks working with data! Talks predominantly focus on community members' experience with dbt, however, you'll catch presentations on broader topics such as analytics engineering, data stacks, data ops, modeling, testing, and team structures.
**Our venue has capacity limits, so please only RSVP if you intend to come** and reach out to \**partnerships@brooklyndata.co*\* if you need to cancel last minute. At anytime, you may update your RSVP status on the Meetup to "Not Going."
➡️ Join the dbt Slack community: [https://www.getdbt.com/community/](https://www.getdbt.com/community/)
🤝For the best Meetup experience, make sure to join the **#local-nyc** channel in dbt Slack ([https://slack.getdbt.com/](https://slack.getdbt.com/))
dbt is the standard in data transformation, used by over 40,000 organizations worldwide. Through the application of software engineering best practices like modularity, version control, testing, and documentation, dbt’s analytics engineering workflow helps teams work more efficiently to produce data the entire organization can trust. Learn more: [https://www.getdbt.com/](https://www.getdbt.com/)
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🏠**Venue Host**: Datadog
🍕**Catering**: TBD
🤝**Organizer**: Brooklyn Data
📣 Agenda and additional details below:
* 5:30pm Networking
* 6:00pm Intro remarks \| Refreshments & Conversation
* Additional Sessions and Times Coming Soon
✨Speakers and Topics:
* Maksim Romanchuk, Analytics Engineer at Westchester Medical Center on **One Model, Two Pipelines: Environment Variables Beyond Feature Flags**
* Stephen Sciortino, Founder at DatabaseTycoon on **How to introduce dbt to your team**
🎤 Interested in speaking at a future meetup? Submit your interest using [this form](https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=xIkPdS1TOUOf2bYF7KJByN1Oqcs2pwhFhb9JprUBxnpUMjJQMEFFSDQ4TUtYUEY2N0dPV0dLUlRBUy4u), and we'll be in touch!
To attend, please read the Required Participation Language for In-Person Events with dbt Labs: [https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy](https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy)
*All participants are welcome. For questions regarding access and accommodation, please contact partnerships@brooklyndata.co in advance.*




















